Tag: Eric Chivian

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard Thinks Green: Why Physicians Must Protect the Global Environment

    Dr. Eric Chivian from Harvard Medical School, the Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, named by Time Magazine in 2008 as “one of the most influential people in the world” and a recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Eric Chivian. December 8, 2011

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  • Science & Tech

    Thinking green, and thinking big

    At the first Harvard Thinks Green, six Harvard professors gathered at Sanders Theatre to seek big solutions for complex and potentially intractable problems such as climate change.

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  • Campus & Community

    A party starts 375th celebrations

    Entertainment, food, festivities highlight October gathering.

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  • Science & Tech

    Ecosystems under siege

    Environmental panel discusses the problems facing the Earth, and what it would take to reverse the damaging trends.

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  • Campus & Community

    Coming soon: Harvard garden

    Harvard will start gardens for growing food in April, with students taking a lead role.

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  • Campus & Community

    AAAS announces 11 Harvard fellows

    The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded 11 Harvard faculty members the distinction of being named an AAAS Fellow on Dec. 17.

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  • Health

    Global ‘chump change’ could provide biodiversity protection

    Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson said the Earth’s major biological hot spots could be conserved for roughly $50 billion— an amount he termed “chump change” in a world of trillion-dollar financial bailouts.

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  • Campus & Community

    Museum of Science hosts Harvard-studded talk on biodiversity

    As part of its Celebrity Science Series, the Museum of Science will host “Sustaining Life: A Conversation” on Oct. 3 with Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Eric Chivian, director of the Center for Health & the Global Environment, and Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at Harvard. Noel Michele Holbrook, the Charles Bullard Professor…

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  • Campus & Community

    Prince Charles honored with HMS’s Global Environmental Citizen Award

    The Prince of Wales received the Global Environmental Citizen Award from Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment. This year’s award, presented on Jan. 28, celebrates the center’s 10th anniversary.

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  • Campus & Community

    ‘Moving toward’ global warming solution

    Earth Day at Harvard offered a hopeful note this year, as speakers praised the University’s efforts toward sustainability, saying they reflect similar grassroots efforts around the country that are forming in response to the problem of global warming. Robert Musil, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, said that, although global warming is a serious…

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  • Science & Tech

    Report documents health effect of biodiversity

    A new report catalogues the connections between biodiversity and human health. The interim executive summary was presented at the United Nations in late October 2002, following the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. The report is the first product from a project called “Biodiversity: Its Importance to Human Health,” headed by…

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